The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-02-19
CURRENT TOPICS,

THE Ohio river has had its annual
picnic.
RUSSIA has forbidden the expectation OF
horses.
PETROLEUM has been found in Central
Belgium.
"MrsrIT suits to hire" are advertised in
New York.
STURGEON skin makes durable boot and
shoe leather.
THE leading dentist in st. Petersburg Is
an American.
CANADA is building her first steel steam.
er at Toronto.
CIGARETTE paper Is said to be made in
113 mills in Spain.
SERPENT-sKrN is coming into fashion as a
covering for books.
ST. 1GNAcE, Mich, has o doctor who Is
also an undertaken.
1T is predicted that the new Boston court
house will cost Is, 100000.
CHURCHILL has gone to Algiers to re-
store break in his health.
OBLIGATORY military service in Belgium,
Is to be made thirteen years.
MAN in Pennsylvania has Just sold his
wife and four children for $50.
JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS does all his lit
erary work with goose quill.
MRS. LILLE PRoK, of Olalla, Ore, haA
Killed seven bears this winter.
MORE people are cremated these days in
railroad cars than in erematorics.
A LOUISIANA (Mo.) man had the hic-
coughs for fourteen consecutive days.
ACANADIAN says that the word toboggan
is properly pronounced with the second o
long.
OLD settlers in Dakota say this has been
the severest winter ever experienced
there.
THE children of Apaches imprisoned in
Florida are being educated in Pennsyl-
vania.
CONTRACTS for carrying the British mails
to America will expire at the end of the
month.
The ghost of stonewall jackson, mounted
on his war-horse, has lately been seen in
Virginia
IT is now in order torsome Chicago MUIR
derer to arrange-if he can-to be hanged
by proxy.
ENGLAND has practically decided to
adopt the Lee American rifle for the use
of her army.
LARGE numbers of cedar railway ties are
being shipped from Alpena, Mich, by rail
to New Mexico.
THE question in Europe is not how to
avoid war, but how to avoid the responsi-
bility for causing it.
FASHIONABLE churches in New York are
overrun with what the sections call ''reg-
ular pew spongers."
TWENTY-FIVE Indians have just entered
the Institute at Hampton, Va, from the
Dakota Reservation.
A VEIN of marble one hundred feet wide
Bodie to Carson, New.
THE State of Delaware has not single
Republican official-the only State in the
Union that can say so.
POPULAR subscription has been started
in Arizona to purchase gold-mounted
sword for General Miles.
DAN RICE, the veteran circus clown and
temperance lecturer, has again fallen into
bad habits in Cincinnati.
AGE and its infirmities are the cause Of
the retirement Of President Pickard from
the Iowa State University.
A PETRIFIED human being is said to have
been discovered in a cave ON Sand Noun
tain, Tenn, few days ago.
CLEVELAND, O., has 26]1 square miles Of
York, Az; and London, III.
WE are paying annually &15, 1000, 900 IN
pensions, and if the proposed new bills be-
come laws it will reach $l47,000,0O
BILL has been introduced into the
Pennsylvania Legislature providing for
the retirement Of judges ON pension.
GILBERT, the English librettist, has not
seen one of his plays acted for fourteen
years, owing to excessive nervousness.
GENERAL SHERMAN would sink sea-coast
forts below the surface of the water, and
in this way make them almost impregna-
Bile.
THE Philadelphia Item says never Judge
man by the umbrella he carries. Nine
times out of ten it belongs to somebody
else.
GUssIE TooGooD was acquitted of mur-
der on her second trial at Des Moines,
which she regards as just too good for
any thing.
THE German post-office authorities are
making extensive experiments with
view to connect the whole of Germany by
telephone.
The largest coal mine in the vicinity of
Huntsville, Mo-, has been opened on the
cooperative plan, the men payingon cent
bushel for the use of the plant.
srATIsTIcIAN shows that while popula-
tion increases at the rate Of only two per
cent. annually, the increase of physicians
is more than five and half per cent.
STANDARD time is being abandoned in
some Michigan cities and towns, and it is
thought the Legislature of that State
will repeal the law that legalized its adop-
tion.
LEADvILLE has the champion toboggan
slide. 1t runs from the top of MOSQUITO
Pass, through the city to the Arkansas
river, near Malta, q distance Of fifteen
miles.
THE largest theater in the world is the
new opera-house in Paris. 1t covers near
1y three acres Of ground; its cubic mass
is 4,2s7, 900 feet; it cost about 100000, 900
francs.
SAN FRANCISCO Is greatly interested in
the subject Of coast defenses. They have
a plan for the defense of the Golden Gate
that would call for the expenditure Of S27,-
S6S, ,150.
A MAGNIFICENT plant and property worth
$4,000, 900, at the Charleston (Mass.) navy
yard, are running to waste. Five thou
sand men were employed there day and
night at one time during the war.
JACK HAvEY, an eccentric character of
Pittsburgh, Pa. died recently, after living a
miscrly life for over fifty years. He left
$4,000 in an old tin can which he had
buried in the yard back Of his shsnty.
"A MAN at Elizabeth, N. j., picked up q
cat in the back yard the other evening and
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